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Basque Wikipedia
	; Basque Wikipedia's screenshot.; It currently has 46,000 articles.
URL	http://eu.wikipedia.org/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	Basque
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Launched	6 December 2001

The Basque Wikipedia (Euskarazko Wikipedia^[1] in Basque) is the Basque language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on 6 December 2001^[2] (although its main page was created in November 2003) and reaching 44,529 articles by October 9, 2009, making it the 46th-largest Wikipedia^[3]. It also has about 12.000 registered users, of which eight are administrators. It has been edited more then 1.232.044 times and it has more than 101.557 pages^[4]^[5]^[6].

It currently has over 48,000 articles.

In an August 2007 interview, Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, used the Basque Wikipedia as an example of the rationale for having wikipedias in smaller languages:

"Certainly within Wikipedia right now we are seeing some fairly successful projects in small European languages. You don't really need a Welsh language Wikipedia, perhaps. The number of people who speak Welsh who don't also speak English is very small and getting smaller every year. So why do we have a Welsh Wikipedia? Well, people wanted it, so they're making it. And language preservation is the main motive. It is their mother tongue and they want to keep it alive, keep its literature alive. Certainly some of the larger small languages like Basque and Catalan have very successful projects. I definitely see that preserving parts of your language and culture through collaborative projects makes a lot of sense."^[7]

On January 25, 2008, the Basque Wikipedia was awarded the Argia Saria granted by the magazine Argia in the category of Internet^[8]^[9]^[10].

[edit] Statistics

Number of Articles	Date	Article
1	December 6, 2001	Lurra
1.000	April 2004
5.000	January 28, 2006
10.000	May 28, 2006
20.000	September 10, 2007
25.000	April 6, 2008^[1]	Euskal Herriak Bere Eskola
30.000	September 12, 2008	Sexu
40.000	July 15, 2009	Eden Project
45.000	October 13, 2009	Xinmin Hiria

[edit] New articles per day

October 8, 2009: 219 articles
August 30, 2009: 141 articles
October 7, 2009: 134 articles
October 11, 2009: 125 articles
October 9, 2009: 118 articles
October 13, 2009: 115 articles

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